Egyptian Judges Refuse To Overseas Referendum To Approve New Constitution

In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, the head of the powerful Egypt Judges Club Ahmed el-Zind, center, speaks at a press conference announcing that judges will not oversee the Dec. 15, 2012 referendum to approve a contentious draft constitution in Cairo, Egypt. El-Zinds comments are the latest in a standoff between President Mohammed Morsi and the judiciary with most judges on strike following decrees Morsi issued last month that placed himself and the constitutional assembly above judicial oversight. <AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan>

An Egyptian journalist works at the editorial room of Al-Masry Al-Youm daily newspaper next to copies of Egypts most prominent newspapers running black background front pages with Arabic that reads, no to dictatorship, tomorrow free newspapers will obscure to protest the freedom’s restrictions, and a picture of a man wrapped in newspapers with his feet cuffed, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Eleven Egyptian newspapers are planning to suspend publication on Tuesday to protest against President Mohammed Morsi’s decision to call a constitution referendum on 15 December. <AP Photo/Nasser Nasser>